When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everybody can be great because everybody can serve... You only need a heart full of grace. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
